Analisis Del Lenguage Chino

Chinese language
ORIGINS
Chinese is supposed to descend from the Sino-Tibetan language family. And supposedly comes from an original language called “Proto-Sino-Tibetan.” Though there is no writtenevidence of both languages eventually dividing. It’s considered an isolated language and has no relationship with Proto-Indo-European languages. There were a lot of ramifications from the languagebut soon Mandarin took over most of China through dynasties. Classical Chinese was once the “lingua franca” of its neighboring countries like Korea, Vietnam and Japan.

WHERE IT IS SPOKEN
*People's Republic of China (PRC, commonly known as China)
* Republic of China (ROC, commonly known as Taiwan)
* Singapore
* Malaysia
* The United States,
* Philippines
* Australia* Thailand
* Vietnam
* Indonesia
* Mauritius
* Peru
* And other regions with Chinese communities.
But it’s recognized as the official language in the UN, China, Taiwanand Singapore.

CHINESE SPEAKERS
(MANDARIN)
* Nativelly: 873 million
* 2nd language: 178 million
* TOTAL: 1.051 billion
Population of China:1,347,350,000
19.17% of the worldspopulation.

EFFECT ON OTHER LANGUAGES
50% or even more of the Korean vocabulary comes from Chinese.
About 60% of the Vietnamese lexicon is borrowed from Middle Chinese. And Vietnamese elites until the14th century used Chinese writing.
In South Korea they used Chinese characters until about the 19th century.
There are words influenced from China in Europeans languages. (For example in Englishwords like “ketchup” and “tea”).

IS IT DIFFERENT IN DIFFERENT PLACES
* Mandarin: 1.365 billion
* Wu: 90million
* Yue: 70million
* Min: 50million
* Xiang: 36million
* Hakka:35million
* Gan: 31million
The amount of people who speak this languages, there are even more variations but these are the most common ones, but mandarin is the one that spreads around the...